I have been playing with setting up a "collage" with my images collected for my "miniature theatre", but decided not gluing these images down so I can use them again, is a better idea. I posted a finished image and one of the comments was "it looks a bit unfinished".
I asked myself the question "What is it that I like about this image?" I investigated further, and asked what was most meaningful in it, and what could be better. I love other artists collages, and since I was working primarily from my "miniature theatre" perspective, I decided to try working more from a "collage" perspective for a piece of art that attracted the viewer's eye to a spot, moved it across the image, repeated motifs and expanded upon what was interesting in the first try.
I realized in the first image that the "sisters" faces were looking at each other, but their hands were extending in the opposite direction, so I decided to copy their hands and stretch them toward each other. I also began thinking of other famous hands and copied them for the image: The Annunciation hand of the Angel, God's hand stretching toward Adam, Eve's had holding the apple and the Arnolfini marriage hands. I love the "boat bed" and as the original had the title "Dream Sister" it held meaning as a conveyance from one aspect to the other - maybe like sub-conscious to conscious. I read a poem that included the words, and I liked the repeated motif, of the "boat bed" flowing across the image to land at the other's feet.
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